Fine art theory... Questions 1 to 5

Question 2: The sensation exhibition was in the Saatchi gallery, I think that the venue was not surprising because the Saatchi gallery usually displays the work of up and coming ant yet well established artists. I think that the exhibitor that continues to fascinate me is Damien Hurst because of the way that he has revolutionised and questioned what it means to create art.

Question 3: The Bauhaus and Black Mountain colleges were both institutional buildings which taught contemporary interior design. These two colleges could have influenced current education because one of their principals was that a student learned better through personal experience than through delivered knowledge.

Question 4: NVA is a public arts charity that shows contemporary exhibitions. Yesyesno is a specialist interactive company that make large contemporary installations. Both of these recently put on exhibitions around ‘light’. I feel that making art as part of a consortium/group is sort of like the concept of having an ongoing theme throughout your work and can often provide a purpose to the work.

Question 5: Fiona Rae, Howard Hodgkin, Gary Hume, George Shaw, Dexter Dalwood, Tomma Abts, Chris Ofili and Sean Scully all won the turner prize. If I had to single out one artist from the above list as my favourite it would be Chris Ofili because of his large  stlye and the fact that everything is slightly messy and out of proportion.

Week 8... Fine art

These are the final painting for my fine art week. i looked at colour, composition, line, texture and aesthetics as well as hidden meaning and juxtaposition. I particularly liked these because of the different ways that i worked.

I used the projector, painted around shaped and sometimes even dribbled with ink...

I also liked the idea of mixing the paint on the canvas to achieve and interesting array of marks.

Final drawings and 3D pieces

I looked at distorting the shape by cuttingt holes into the folded and allready unusually shaped sculpture.

These line drawings were particularly difficult but a good kill to hone for defining shapes. (made from ink dipped in card.)

Week 7... 3D... Designers

walter gropius

 Gropius is a furniture designer from the bauhaus in germany. I particularly like the clean cut modern feel to his designs. even though they were produced decades ago they are still in fashion today.

Ingo Maurer

Maurer is a practical installation designer. I particularly like his work with lights and the way he brings an aspect of the surreal into his work here, with the wings.

3D Paper Garment

I took a pattern pive from a garment, a sleeve, and cut it up, drew around it and played with different methods of folding...

I came up with many alternatives but i preferred the above shape the best...

With this small maquette i played around with different ways to attatch it to the figure:

After deciding on a position i liked i then photocopie the template as big as the paper would allow to attatch it to the figure for the final prototype...

I then created a series of illustrations, originally using ink on tracing paper,befor then going on to collage using photocopies drawing and folded paper/ magazine clippings.

 My work was chosen to be displayed in the exhibition for the open day, both my 3D piece and my illustrations:

Simon Chang

Simon Chang is a canadian womenswear designer, here are two of his garments that i admire most...

Above: Coat/Poncho
stark, angular lines
grey fleece material
button up front
informal wear
comfort
simple clean lines but effective look
hidden seems
tribal cultural look

 

Above: dress

slim/streamlined

impractical

feathers

sweetheart neckline

strapless

worn for easthetics not comfort

formal wear

black slimlone clolours

Week 6... Fashion... Yoshio Kubo

Yoshio Kubo is a fashion designer who caught my eye because of his interesting and quite different style of menswear... Here are two garments that i particularly admire:

Left, Poncho,                                                                   Right, coat
turtle neck                                                                        button and zip up
front zip,                                                                          multifunctional
tribal menswear                                                               comfort and practicality
alternating blue and purple v shaped bodice                   nylon
informal wear                                                                  informal wear
worn for warmness and comfort                                     waterproof material
fleece material                                                                

Textiles Final Pieces

The above images are of my final piece for the textiles teaster session... this is how i got to the decision of colour... composition... and materials...

I created various monoprints of my final three designs and played around with colour an marks.

Above are the images of my final colour and compostioinal studies, i looked at using thickness of line and the placement of colour and a theme of colour to bring out the images.

This was one of the first studies idid from life, here iworked out the basic colour schemeof my piece.

Above are the studies that i concentrated the monoprints on.

Week 5... Textiles... Textile Artists

From the library i quickly researched several textile artists to get a overall idea about the different specialisms within textiles:-

Katrina Thompson 

I particularly like her work because of the detail and repetitive nature of  her pieces, like the piece above which i think is quite unusual and rugged, yet you can see the thought and detail that has gone into the creative process.

http://www.karinathompson.co.uk/


Sue Rangeley

I really appreciate the way that she uses bright and contrasting colours, as i think that it catches the viewers eye extremely well. I also like the exclusiveness of herf pieces as well as the practical element of a garment.

Like the image above, where Rangeley has created what looks like quite a rugged effect and yet you can tell that a lot of time and effort has been put into the process of making the garment.

http://www.suerangeley.co.uk/


Michael Brennand Wood

The particular reason that Wood's work caught my eye is the way that his work is cluttered and yet simple, and instantly recognisable by its unique style.

I also admire the way he uses bright, contrasting, yet, effective colours and colour schemes, and i think they often set the mood/ tone/ setting in his work.

Finally i like the way that Wood creates both 2D and 3D work throughout his career.

http://www.brennand-wood.com/michael.html

John Blakemore

A short study of John Blakemore's photography...


The main reason i was drawn to John Blakemore and his photography was the way in which he photographs nature and his surroundings...  

In the image above i particularly like the way he hasn't remotely tried to capture the entirety of the forest, but just a snapshot that brings across the atmosphere extremely well. I also admire his use of contrast to bring out the image and the way it is compostionally positioned within the space.
     

I like the above image because of its slightly abstract nature, where you cant tell what the focus of the image is, yet it doesn't matter because it is still aesthetically pleasing because of the contrast in colour and its interesting shape.

One point i learned from his photography is that an image could be of anything but the distinction between a good image and an exceptional image is all in the looking and listening within your surroundings.

Annie Leibovitz

A short study of Annie Leibovitz' photography:-

The main thing that caught my eye about Leibovitz' photography is the way that they are highly thought through and executed, compositionally and  in the way that she contrasts dark and light. For instance this is shown in the image below where the ravine/ cliff shows just a tiny peek of the stucture behind, yet, that peek shows just enough of the structure to make the image appear intriguing and compositionally sound.

I also quite like the way that she creates a stereotype and description to the object / model of her photography. I think the below image is a prime example of this in the way that she has captured the dancers in strong, linear yet graceful poses much like the stereotype for the male dancer.

I also admire how she has created contradiction in the above image, by capturing what appears to be a strong, linear male in what could be seen as a decidedly female position.